How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you getting bewildered? We positively are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too badly.

Problem No.3: A complete shortage of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to point out the total lack of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than 120 Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting vendors:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...